Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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The Thatcher `peoples` know the cost of everything and the value of nothing....
This one is a definite egp....
Fergus Wilson: The landlord who wants to put 200 families out on the street
Fergus Wilson has grown rich on the benefit recipients who rent some of his 1,000 properties. So why does he want to evict them?
Gemma Jupe, a 25-year-old single mother from Ashford, had just got home from hospital after giving birth to her second child when she discovered she was facing eviction.
Her landlord is the now notorious Fergus Wilson, who said this week that he was kicking out 200 families on benefits from his properties to replace them with Eastern European migrants. Mr Wilson said coldly of his decision: "We've found [migrants] to be a good category of tenant who don't default on their rent."
Along with his wife Judith, Mr Wilson owns around 1,000 properties in Kent, giving him an estimated of fortune of around £240m, making them among the richest private landlords in Britain. It appears, however, their wealth has not made the couple any more inclined to give their hard-up tenants an easier ride.
In an interview that went viral, Mr Wilson told Channel 4: "I feel sorry for battered wives who have come to us because we're very much consigning them to go back to their husbands to be beaten up again." When asked if he had exercised any moral judgement over the eviction of impoverished tenants from his homes, he said: "The only judgement we exercise is a financial judgement".